| I guess with this new Warner / Cummings tracking app 11:30 - May 5 with 4236 views | gordon |
We're going to find out why it's actually not such a great idea to have a Government full of charlatans that think it's fine to constantly lie, cheat and mislead the public. |  | | |  |
| I guess with this new Warner / Cummings tracking app on 10:01 - May 6 with 588 views | longtimefan |
| I guess with this new Warner / Cummings tracking app on 07:42 - May 6 by DanTheMan |
They could, but I cannot imagine they will. They want countries to use the decentralised model because of security concerns. |
Isn't that a bit rich given the amount of personal data both Apple and Google harvest from our phones? |  | | |
| I guess with this new Warner / Cummings tracking app on 10:17 - May 6 with 582 views | DanTheMan |
| I guess with this new Warner / Cummings tracking app on 10:01 - May 6 by longtimefan |
Isn't that a bit rich given the amount of personal data both Apple and Google harvest from our phones? |
Perhaps, but at the end of the day it is their operating system. They probably don't want every country coming up with increasingly wacky ways to abuse it.
I'm not going to criticise them for doing the right thing. |  |
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| I guess with this new Warner / Cummings tracking app on 11:11 - May 6 with 572 views | Ewan_Oozami |
| I guess with this new Warner / Cummings tracking app on 17:42 - May 5 by DanTheMan |
OK so just to give you an idea about how Android and iOS work, there is no way they are going to be able to access your GPS without making it incredibly obvious.
In Android, you cannot access it without detailing you will be wanting that specific permission. Once you actually try and use the GPS, if you have not prompted the user, the OS will ask you if it is OK for the app to have access to the GPS. There is no way round this without being a system level application.
You cannot install system level applications on the fly. I know because I've literally tried to do this for an application that was used by the NHS that I helped develop. |
So that was you trying to bypass the install script then? ;-) |  |
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| I guess with this new Warner / Cummings tracking app on 11:23 - May 6 with 562 views | DanTheMan |
| I guess with this new Warner / Cummings tracking app on 11:11 - May 6 by Ewan_Oozami |
So that was you trying to bypass the install script then? ;-) |
The amount of fun we went through trying to install system level applications over the air without user input...
We already had system level application as we'd modified Android, but even then because of the way Play Store worked, it still wouldn't let you install the application without a user hitting a button, which the product manager did not like.
So we ended up essentially opening a shell, and force installing the application during the night with some commands.
Eventually that broke and then we had to modify the operating system on the fly. Good thing everything in Java is virtual  | |
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| I guess with this new Warner / Cummings tracking app on 09:12 - May 8 with 508 views | Libero |
Yeah, but 1984?
I’m quite enjoying the irony of people pontificating about dark dystopian futures based how much data the government will hold on you, via the medium of Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/etc. [Post edited 8 May 2020 9:19]
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| I guess with this new Warner / Cummings tracking app on 09:28 - May 8 with 495 views | gordon |
Sounds like we've started building another App based on Google / Apple API. Still, good to have a go.
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| I guess with this new Warner / Cummings tracking app on 09:55 - May 8 with 482 views | DanTheMan |
| I guess with this new Warner / Cummings tracking app on 09:12 - May 8 by Libero |
Yeah, but 1984?
I’m quite enjoying the irony of people pontificating about dark dystopian futures based how much data the government will hold on you, via the medium of Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/etc. [Post edited 8 May 2020 9:19]
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Indeed.
I do think it's OK to be cautious about how much data you give over to the Government.
In this case both the NHS and the Government already know where you live. I'm sure if they were actually interested they could find out your GPS movements as well.
The only thing from an unlawful perspective at the moment is whether the ID counts as PID data or not which I think is with the ICO. That also explains why (as Gordon posted) there are developing an app using the Apple / Google model in case (and also incase their hacks around the restrictions don't work as well in the field). | |
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